Composition for covering floors, walls, and other surfaces.



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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

1 GIOVANNI LIZIERI, OF NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR TO THE FLORENTINE FLOORING COMPANY LIMITED, OF NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, ENGLAND.

COMPOSITION FOR COVERING FLOORS, WALLS, AND OTHER SURFACES.

1,141,891 Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 1, 1915.

No Drawing. Application filed January 16, 1914. Serial No. 812,572.

To all whom it may concern also be formed into thin slabs or the like, 45

Be it known that I, GIOVANNI Lrzmnr, a and used for roofing and other purposes. subject of the King of Italy, residing at The composition can be made of any color -Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in the county of by addin d h colors to the dr mix- 5 Northumberland, in England, have invented ture, or b IIllXlIl QLWI i e a certain new and useful Improved Composipy wa er; an (Fan e to repre sent 50 tion for Covering Floors, Walls, and other Mme; and the like.

Surfaces, of which the following is a speci- What I claim as my invention and desire fication. to secure by Letters Patent of the United This invention relates to an improved States is composition suitable for covering floors, 1. Acomposition for covering floors, walls, 55 walls, roofs or for lining reservoirs, cisterns, and other surfaces comprising one part of baths and the like. Florentine cement, three parts of a mixture The composition consists of :(a) The cecomprising essentially substantially equal ment known in trade as Florentine cement parts of sawdust, ground cork, asbestos and which is a ma esite sulfurous hard stone of pumice stone, and a solution of soft soap 60 volcanic nature found m I uscany, which in water in the proportion of three quarters .is me a nel owde d. (b) Finely of a pound of soap to a gallon of water, the.

s1 e ne roun'cork dust assaid solution being added in the proportion bestos and umice stone"a|l in more or less of one part to two parts by measure of the equal proportions depending on the fineness aforesaid materials. 65

or coarseness of the composition required. 2. Acomposition for coveringfloors, walls,

If very fine quality is required, one portion and other surfaces consisting of one part of of ound a er is added to the above. (0) Florentine cement, three parts of a mixture soag dissolved in water in the roporconsisting of substantially equal parts of ion 0 a out i lb. to one gallon of g te sawdust, ground cork, asbestos, pumice stone 70 'The powdered materials must be very dry and ground paper, and a solution of soft and well mixed together in the proportion of soap in water in the proportion of three p 1 1e of (a) to thpee of (b) by measure. The quarters of a pound of soap to a gallon of soapy water is added'to'the dry mixture in water, the said solution being added in the the proportion of one of water to two of proportion of one part to two parts by meas- 75 mixture by measure, and well stirred. ure of the aforesaid materials.

Chemical action takes place between the al- 3. A composition for covering floors, walls, kali and the magnesite of the powdered maand other surfaces comprising Florentine terials. This causes all the ingredients to cement, a mixture of sawdust, cork, asbestos,

' bind together, and form a plastic mass, which and umice stone and" solution comprising 80 when dry is hard, and both ,fiiwnof and essentially soft soap in w ter inthe'proporwater roof and can be sawed or laned. tions substantially as descri ed.

- I'liei l npdsition is applied to the oor or In witness whereof I have signed this 40 other surface in a lastic state, and adheres specification in the presence of two witnesses.

firmly to such sur ace whether it be wood, GIOVANNI LIZIERI. stone, concrete, metals, or the like, and when Witnesses:

dry does not expand or contract, and is not JOHN HARDINGE VEITCH,

afiected by changes of temperature. It can CHARLES STEPHEN GARDNER.

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